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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer
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"In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU."

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Mac Miller Rapper, Singer, Songwriter
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"The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music."

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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy."

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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness."

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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?"

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Bill Hicks Comedian, Writer
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"What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all one. Ha ha ha ha ha! It's gonna fuck up the economy! The economy that's fake anyway! Ha ha ha! Which would be a real bummer. You know. You can see why the government's cracking down... on the idea of experiencing unconditional love, ah."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind."

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"It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself."

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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
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"The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities."

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